Posted on 04/30/2014 3:01:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 30, 2014 5:08 PM Reid: NFL Should Punish Redskins Owner Like NBA Did Sterling By Andrew Johnson
The NBA’s lifetime ban of Donald Sterling for his offensive comments should put the NFL on notice about Washington Redskins’ racist name, Harry Reid says.
On the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, Reid commended NBA commissioner Adam Silver for his response to the Sterling situation, and urged his NFL counterpart Roger Goodell to take similar action to “stamp out bigotry in its ranks.” The Senate majority leader also dismissed the tradition-based defense Redskins owner Dan Snyder has made of the team’s name when pledging to stick by it, pointing out that the Washington Wizards changing their name from the Washington Bullets in the 1990s.
“Since Snyder fails to show any leadership, the National Football League should take an assist from the NBA and pick up the slack — it would be a slam dunk,” Redi said. “I believe Roger Goodell is a good man, but it’s time for this good man to act: Remove this hateful term from your league’s vocabulary.”
Reid’s demands echo that of Oneida Nation, the leading group behind the Redskins name-change, who says that the “NBA has shown leagues like the NFL that they have a moral responsibility” to “not be a platform to promote bigotry.”
Holy crap, it’s not satire.
Annnnnd here we goooo!
*snork*. I have to clean my keyboard now. What you wrote was funny enough but I read it as Washington Gonorrheans.
Harry Reid is an idiot....unfortunately he is the hatchet man that the dims love to use. Someone ought to ask him if he wants to punish the lying liar E. Warren
That’s right, mob-associated, corrupt, crooked, power-drunk demagogue stopped his Koch Brothers non-sequiturs long enough to try to revive that idiotic meme.
Thanks Sub-Driver.
the National Football League should take an assist from the NBA and pick up the slack — it would be a slam dunk,” Redi said.
Note to Hairy Reid, there is NO slam dunk in football...
Good God... Is this for real?
What a pandering SOB
Nevada, wake up
When is Reid going to be punished for his many crimes? I guess at his age he isn’t too far from death, and eternal punishment.
This guy should be called out for using the floor of the Senate as a shield from otherwise libelous statements against ordinary Americans.
Someone needs to get Harry back in the ring.
The word comes down from one of the chief fascists.
And if the Redskins go, what about the Cleveland Indians? Indian is such a bad word. The proper term is First Peoples.
Then what about the Cleveland Browns? What is a Brown if not a derogatory term?
So they went from naming the team after fast, sleek projectiles to naming their team for old men dressed in white sheets with tall, pointed hats leading their racist klan followers in cross-burning parties...
When the dust is settled on all this, if the NBA still exists, they will come after Ted Leonsis for the soon-to-be "racist" name of his basketball team. Just watch...
The Pubbies in the Senate are Pussies!!
Reid is such or moron, the Wash Bullets, changed their name to the Wash Wizards. What’s a wizard by todays standards, head of the KKK or Harry Potter.
Why doesn’t the senate shut him up, bringing all this garbage on the Senate floor, wasting taxpayer money.
Need it be said that Reid and criminally minded folks like him in DC is what is wrong in this country?? Oh never mind, Reid invariably laughs all the way to the bank, the corrupt POS.
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